Landscape Contracting

Do you love to work outside?

Do want to know how plants grow, how to install a porous unit paver patio, how to design a garden?

Then the Landscape Contracting program is for you!

The Landscape Contracting curriculum developes a foundation around three primary areas; Landscape Design, Horticuluture and Landscape Construction/Business. The goal of the Landscape Contracting program is to prepare students to become crew leaders, project supervisors and estimators as well as to hold other managerial positions. This is done by developing a student's skills in these areas: design, estimating, installation and managment. The program is offered through the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning and administered through the Stockbridge School of Agriculture.

Learn by Doing!

Learning by doing is not lost in the Landscape Contracting program. Whether in the laboratory or in the field, courses regularly teach students by allowing them to do it! Students are in the field learning to survey which they then apply in other areas of the curriculum such as design studios and construction labs. How landscape systems work is explained in lecture and then applied in an actual built project that the students undertake. Learning how to identify plants is taught in lecture and then regularly applied on our campus.